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1) Sloths
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46 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"A look at sloths, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their long claws, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their growing popularity in the world today"--
2) Sloths
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31 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Diagrams, graphs, and fun text help readers explore the lives of sloths and their place in the wild animal kingdom"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Hang around just like a sloth and get to know the delightful residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, the world's largest sloth orphanage. You'll fall in love with bad-boy Mateo, ooh and ahh over baby Biscuit, and want to wrap your arms around champion cuddle buddy Ubu!
6) Sloths
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"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Sloths, emergent readers learn how sloths climb, eat, and sleep in trees. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Sloths includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions. Sloths...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Overview: Slowly, slowly, slowly ... that's how the sloth lives. He hangs upside-down from the branch of a tree, night and day, in the sun and in the rain, while the other animals of the rain forest rush past him. "Why are you so slow? Why are you so quiet? Why are you so lazy?" the others ask the sloth. And, after a long, long, long time, the sloth finally tells them! Set in the lush world of the tropical rain forest, this original picture book is...
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1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm
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English
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Many find sloths cute, while some find them just plain bizarre. In The Upside-Down Book of Sloths, Elizabeth Shreeve uncovers their less-well-known evolutionary history and how they became the beloved -- and unique -- creatures of today. She pairs and compares the six extant modern species, like the pygmy sloth, the brown-throated sloth, and the ai, with their prehistoric counterparts, such as Thalassocnus, the tough seafaring sloth; Paramylodon,...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Mervin the Sloth is about to do the best thing in the world. Can you guess what it is? "Flying!" says the bird. "Gazelling!" says the gazelle. "Digging!" says the prairie dog. Hurry up, Mervin! But Mervin moves so slowly. Are you patient enough to wait? No? Turn the page!
13) Sloths
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Simple text and color photographs describe the slow-moving, leaf-eating animal known as the sloth.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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High in the canopy of the rain forest, a sloth spends her days and nights, camouflaged from predators. She moves very little. You might not spot her because she has a secret life. Follow her as she swims and climbs, looks for food, escapes a harpy eagle, and gives birth to her son ... caring for him until the day when she will leave him to live a secret life of his own.
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64 pages : llustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Is modern living stressing you out and getting on top of you? Try slowing things down a little by being more sloth. Living in the 21st century is exciting, but with everything moving so quickly it can feel a touch overwhelming. It's time that everybody relaxed and took a moment to enjoy the simple pleasures, but we also appreciate it's easier said than done. That's why we've enlisted the help of an expert to guide you along the path to peace. Meet...
18) Lost sloth
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Sloth hurries to make it to the store to claim his free shopping spree, but the notoriously slow-moving animal faces challenges in reaching his destination before time runs out.
20) Jasper & Ollie
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Jasper, an impatient fox, and Ollie, a slow-moving sloth, head to the pool on a summer day, each taking their own unique path.--
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